13 Tips for Parents of Intersex Children

• 13. Protect your child, medical people, and even relatives will be curious, but they don't have to see everything, its not a freak show 
• 12. Ask if the hospital has any referrals for support groups for people going through the same thing. 
• 11. Realize intersex is not something that is “cured” it’s a lived experience. 
• 10. Take care of yourself, ask for a referral to a therapist if you are feeling overwhelmed. 
• 9. Realize there is no rush for treatment, most intersex conditions are not immediately dangerous.
• 8. It’s OK to make mistakes, the gender on birth certificates can be changed for example. 
• 7. If your doctors are not understanding, or pressuring you, it’s ok to get different doctors. 
• 6. Not everyone will “get it” and that’s ok, give them time. 
• 5. Don’t do anything irreversible, your child should have the right to choose what happens to their body. 
• 4. Realize that it is ok to be different, you child can still have a wonderful life. 
• 3. If you are worried how caregivers will react, you have the wrong caregivers. 
• 2. Don’t be afraid to seek out more information on intersex, knowledge is power. 
• 1. Love, support and accept your child, no matter how they identify.